Siege of Kamakura (1526)
Siege of Kamakura | |||||||
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Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Uesugi clan |
HÅjÅ clan ItÅ family Ogasawara family | ||||||
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Satomi Sanetaka | Various retainers of HÅjÅ Ujitsuna |
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In the 1526 siege of Kamakura (大永鎌倉åˆæˆ¦; "Daiei Battle of Kamakura"), Satomi Sanetaka led forces of the Uesugi clan against the HÅjÅ, who had taken Edo from the Uesugi two years earlier. The city was defended by a number of retainers of HÅjÅ Ujitsuna, including members of the ItÅ and Ogasawara families.
The Uesugi forces burned much of the city to the ground, including Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gÅ«. This was a terrible psychological loss for the HÅjÅ, since the earlier HÅjÅ clan, from which they took their name, had suffered their final defeat at the same location in 1333.
See also
References
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
- Turnbull, Stephen (2002). 'War in Japan: 1467-1615'. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
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